About

Aronima Dass is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple with over 7 years of relevant experience in the industry. She specializes in solving search and data retrieval problems, distributed systems, and storage. Aronima completed her Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 and has been working on building cool stuff at Apple News and Special Projects Groups ever since. At Apple News, Aronima is part of the platform/infrastructure team, where she is solving backend search/storage challenges for News. She is also part of the cross-functional team that re-architected search from the ground up, including migrating search infrastructure to k8s. Aronima has led the design and implementation of the indexing pipelines for better search quality. In the Special Project Group at Apple, Aronima worked primarily in the domain of storage and data retrieval, building out microservices that are responsible for storage, indexing, and search. She worked with technologies like Netty, Kafka, Kubernetes, Solr, Lucene, Hbase, Cassandra, and FoundationDB. As part of a special project group, Aronima collaborated with Siri teams to design and implement new features in Siri that were required for this new product. Before joining Apple, Aronima worked as a Software Development Engineer at NetApp, where she worked on prototyping server-side copy operation in NFS-4.2 and bug fixes in various areas within NFS. She also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Vision Lab, where she designed and implemented correlation filters to investigate their accuracy to solve the problem of object localization. Aronima's education history includes a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, and an Advanced Software Systems Graduate Certificate from Stanford University. Aronima's tech stack includes expertise in Software Engineering, Search, Infra, Kubernetes, ML, Cassandra, Kafka, Microservices, Backend, Computer Vision, Research Scientist, and SVM.